Kathryn Burrell is a Communication Ph.D. student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst specializing in Film Studies. She holds an M.A. in Communication with an emphasis in Documentary Studies, She also holds a B.A. in Theatre and Film Studies which she obtained while working with the university’s Emmy award-winning multimedia office on broadcasting, production, and photography. Kathryn’s areas of interest include genre theory,  film history, documentary film, historiography, audience research, popular culture, and media studies. For more information please refer to her CV, linked below.